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[Team Sonic] Geometries
First words from Telling Yourself
Prince of Tennis if it took place in Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist (because if any Tennis character would use a magic system based around geometry, it would be Inui).
They would get better from now on, Inui told himself. They had to get better from now on. He couldn't afford to make mistakes like this; they could get him killed (they could get Kaidou killed).
"Is there a problem, Inui-senpai?" Kaidou stepped through the doorway almost as if he had been summoned by the mere thought of his name. "I brought the new chalk samples you wanted."
Inui pointed to the large circle drawn on the floor. "The circumference of a circle is 3.14159 times its diameter. To make the most stable two-point circle possible, the line of forbiddance needs to pass through the two bind points on opposite sides of the line of warding. The circumference of this circle is 3.14165 times the length of the part of the line of forbiddance within this circle."
Kaidou just stared, holding out the newest box of samples sent over for comparison.
"The line I drew did not, in fact, follow the diameter of the circle," Inui muttered, taking the box from Kaidou without breaking his monologue. "It was slightly above it. This error must have fallen outside of the limit of detection in the smaller models as I have created hundreds of test circles recently, and and the calculations all appeared fine."
"They fit on a sheet of paper," Kaidou said. "These don't, and the floor is uneven."
"Terrain can't matter," Inui countered. "No enemy will pick terrain to make it easy for us. If my defensive structures are flawed now, they will only be worse in a battle. The mistake will be in here somewhere; I just need to find it. Hand me my compass, and the protractor behind you."
Kaidou passed over the tools, then retreated to the corner, out of Inui's way. He had only meant to drop off the chalk and leave, but he couldn't in good conscience abandon Inui now. Not unless he wanted to return later and find Inui trapped behind lines of forbiddance of his own making, his chalk stuck on the other side just out of his reach.
Inui may have been a rithmatic genius, but his genius came from a nearly inhuman understanding of the theoretical. Unfortunately, translating theory to reality was rarely the smooth sailing he expected. After all, reality came with pesky things like friction, lines with non-zero thickness, and gravity, and no amount of offended muttering would make them go away.
Prince of Tennis if it took place in Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist (because if any Tennis character would use a magic system based around geometry, it would be Inui).
They would get better from now on, Inui told himself. They had to get better from now on. He couldn't afford to make mistakes like this; they could get him killed (they could get Kaidou killed).
"Is there a problem, Inui-senpai?" Kaidou stepped through the doorway almost as if he had been summoned by the mere thought of his name. "I brought the new chalk samples you wanted."
Inui pointed to the large circle drawn on the floor. "The circumference of a circle is 3.14159 times its diameter. To make the most stable two-point circle possible, the line of forbiddance needs to pass through the two bind points on opposite sides of the line of warding. The circumference of this circle is 3.14165 times the length of the part of the line of forbiddance within this circle."
Kaidou just stared, holding out the newest box of samples sent over for comparison.
"The line I drew did not, in fact, follow the diameter of the circle," Inui muttered, taking the box from Kaidou without breaking his monologue. "It was slightly above it. This error must have fallen outside of the limit of detection in the smaller models as I have created hundreds of test circles recently, and and the calculations all appeared fine."
"They fit on a sheet of paper," Kaidou said. "These don't, and the floor is uneven."
"Terrain can't matter," Inui countered. "No enemy will pick terrain to make it easy for us. If my defensive structures are flawed now, they will only be worse in a battle. The mistake will be in here somewhere; I just need to find it. Hand me my compass, and the protractor behind you."
Kaidou passed over the tools, then retreated to the corner, out of Inui's way. He had only meant to drop off the chalk and leave, but he couldn't in good conscience abandon Inui now. Not unless he wanted to return later and find Inui trapped behind lines of forbiddance of his own making, his chalk stuck on the other side just out of his reach.
Inui may have been a rithmatic genius, but his genius came from a nearly inhuman understanding of the theoretical. Unfortunately, translating theory to reality was rarely the smooth sailing he expected. After all, reality came with pesky things like friction, lines with non-zero thickness, and gravity, and no amount of offended muttering would make them go away.